Means for sealing vessels.



Patented Sept. 29, 1908'.

J.V M.v HICKS MEANS Fon SEALING vEssBLs. lAPPLICATION- PILED JUNE 17, 1907.

UNITED i STATES PATENT UEFICE. A

nJaivIEsnILNon nronsror SUMMIT, NEw JERsEYg AssIeNoP. 'ro Au'ros'roPPEncoMrANY,

or NEW Yoan, N. Y.

-nnazANfs Non'` .SEALING vns'seiizs..v j

No. 899,732. I

'Toall 'it may concern. j

Be it known that I, JAMES MILNQR HICKS, aitizen ofthe United States, residing 'at Surlirnit,` Union county, New Jersey,4 have. invented certain new and useful Improvements in'v Means for'Sealing'Vessels', of whichv the iollowingis a'spec'ification.v Myiventio relates to means forsealing vessels vandfit consistslin certain elements and Vcombinations of elements4 fullyset out ures the cap is contracted inwardly fromuts and claimed in the following specification.

ln'order. that those skilled inthe artto which myrinvention,appertains, may understand, 'construct, anduse my invention, I 'jPOceed-to 4describe it referring to the accompanying drawingsforming part of this specification in whic g f 'e 1,.represe tsincentralsection a 'sealingI caL according to onefor-xn `oi my in- 2'0 vention a ove the .vessel shown in Fig. 2 to which. it is `to be ap lied. Fig. .2. .represents central section-"tl e same with thecapseed upon the vessel.l Fig.- 4. represents in trai section another form ofrny invention' 25 and Fig. 5 represents the same applied to a.

vessel. Fig. 3. is a top view to show that the various forms of Vmy invention are substanf- -tiallycirculan Fig-Gris still another form and Fig.: 7 shows itv applied-to a vessel` 30 A. in all the igures'representsavessel having Aa bead on it;A exterior'surrounding the Y upg r part of the neck near its' mouth. represents the top surface of' a sealing .35 C, Figs. 4 and 5., represents a c1rcurnferen tial flange pendent fromv the outer diameter Y `of the top surface B. JD, Fig-.4, represents 'a circumferential roove near the baselof said ilange C, turne inward and contracts-the 4o diameter of said flange atthis point. f

G. represents a sealing vwafer inside the cap in all the figures. f i l F, Figs. 2 and 5 and 7 representsa beadA upon the exterior of the vessel necknear its mouth. l E Fig. 1, shows corr ations in'a la'nge pendent from the top sur ace B,'aridDFig. 1 shows the straight portion,v ofsaid. Harige; between the corrugations E. j

In Eig. l6 E shows the pendente@ e curved inward throughout itswhole'lengt contracting the diameter inward.

Specification o# Letters Patent. Patent'ed Sept. 29, 1.90.8.

` applicati@ mea Jane 17,1907. seriaINaswoa th previous to -bein 'nf the vessel an .eXtreme diameter 'betw '.tomfo'lj the pendent ila stretched over r the bea! after being outward, to iit the bend. i

'invention consists inso contracting the metal of the pendent flangebyfupsetting the metal previousto the ap lication of thel cap ,to the vessel, that, .when jit is "stretched over4 the .bead onthe vessel, the` contraction will be expanded again togrip the'bead onjthe vessel and thus a greaterrange of inequalityv between the two.

traction being of'smaller diameter' than the said enlargement upon v,thevessel neck,- Where- 1 by when said enlargementfis entered within .said flange, said flange lwill expand and grig said enlargement and thus secure the vsai .cap frmly upon s'aid vessel, substantially as ,speciiied.- I.

Invtestirnony whereof, 1 have signed my name to this'specilication in the presence of Atwo subscribing witnesses'.

MILNOR HICKS. i

P. BARR.

The Principle Wl'chis involved in this Fig'. showsithe :capo-f Fig. 4 stretched over thelbead F u on the vessel neck, with I Fig. 2 shows the vcorrug'ated flange of Fig. 41 stretched -over the bead Fon thevessel e top and bote between the flange of the cap and the size of the bead is possible and still give strong grip what I elaimas new and as my' invention and The combination with auvessel having a its neck, of a Vsealing cap having top surface,

pendent ilangejbeing contracted inwardly Y fromitsextreme diarrletelglsaid inward conf 

